A Custom First Birthday Song for Your Little One

She will not remember any of it. You will remember all of it. That is the honest reason to make a song for a first birthday. It is not really for the one year old, it is for the two adults who have not slept properly since last spring.

So the song gets the year you actually had. The 3am routine that finally worked, and the chair you did it in. The word she says wrong that the whole family now says wrong on purpose. The day she stood up on her own in the kitchen, holding the oven handle, with nobody's phone ready. The face your partner makes that gets a laugh every single time.

You do not need to write any of it well. Send bullet points, half sentences, the note in your phone you have been adding to since February. We turn that into lyrics. If the two of you want different things in it, send both lists and say who is who.

It is a file you keep, not something that gets used up at the party. It is still there to open on her second birthday, or her fifth, or at whatever age somebody thinks to put it on. That is what a keepsake is for, and it is why the year in it has to be the real one, with the stroller wheel that squeaked and the pediatrician parking lot, rather than a general song about tiny hands.

An original studio-quality song written from your details, $19.99, delivered by email within 24 hours, so a party this Sunday is still doable.

Open the order form and start with the 3am detail. That one usually makes the strongest opening line.